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It's the closest place to donate things to me, they were in need of baby stuff which I had gotten a ton of (and went and got more) and the line for people who needed food and supplies was wrapped around the building.
I don't like Lakewood and I know far more about that church than the people in this thread defending them, but I know when to put that aside when people are in need.
Good person.
I'm glad to hear that people are now getting to use those donations.
Not really. There's no way a tropical storm has more destructive force than a Cat 4 hurricane. Look at what happened to New Orleans after Cat 3 Katrina.
What s your intent here? To declare Sandy destruction amount does not matter if the hurricane came ashore barely one? Houston's damage was not on wind by far..... it was water.
Houston wasn't hit with the force of a 4 so should we only say western areas it came ashore with the highest winds...... get the Federal aid? Are you saying too that Sandy not a 4 was NOT WORTHY OF THE AID? Should have been voted down?
How about the Louisiana/Texas coast now as it comes ashore NOT a hurricane? Now worthy of the Federal aid levels?
Sandy still did great damage. Heck..... Agnes in 1972 was no hurricane when the mid-Atlantic states flooded. River towns and creek areas bore the damage in whole towns inundated.
What the National Hurricane Center does is issue watches and warnings, as well as diagrams indicating the possible paths a developing hurricane may take; the most likely path is in the center of the 'cone'.
So, yes, the Center does not actually say 'it is a 90 percent chance that the storm will hit Corpus Christie', for instance, but it will indicate the most likely path in the cone, which was pretty accurate this time.
Indeed, on Thursday the forecast map looked like the scribbling of a child, showing that Harvey was expected to hit the Texas coastline somewhere between Brownsville and Houston, and then showing that the storm would stall in-land, then back up, gain strength in the Gulf, go back ashore and hit Houston, and then head north again.
Pretty accurate. Now, on Friday they were estimating that when Harvey hit the Gulf again (after its first landfall), that it would reform significantly over open water, and then move west and hit Houston. This did not really happen. Harvey did return to the Gulf and began tracking north, but its eye-wall never fully left the shoreline, hence it did not strengthen as projected, and it did not turn and hit Houston directly.
There are plenty on this board. Eager to bash Trump for the most minor offenses yet have no problem with things like Hilary's illegal email server, Benghazi or Obamacare.
Really? I've seen plenty of Democrats (liberals, progressives, moderates) criticizing these things on this forum and outside of this forum.
That a pretty pointless stat unless it mentions the amount of money received by the federal governmet from texas. I just looked up this stat and all I found was a rather stupid article blasting rick perry by the far left mother jones magazine stating texas received all of $3.45 billion to Texas during 8 years of rick perrys rule, that is just a little over 1% of tax money Texas citizens and corporation pay in revenue to the federal government each year. The writer didnt even mention the enormous amount of revenue the federal government gets from Texas
Personally I pay taxes in texas and I dont want to see large disaster relief without fundamental changes in zoning cities to prevent alot of this flooding and damage, texas is the only state with a completely independent power grid, it shouldnt have to rely on the federal government disaster relief and keep more if its money at home to deal with hurricanes etc
Chart starting in 1978 to present, Texas is in second place with over $6 Trillion, Louisiana is in first with $19T. City of Houston and Harris County alone have received almost $2T in federal dollars. I do believe Texas has received the most federal aide in the last decade but it's not broken out.
" As Texas requests federal aid for Hurricane Harvey, let us remember Texan politicians who voted against Sandy aid "
Be my guest. If any proposed relief legislation is deemed unsatisfactory, elected officials are free to vote against it.
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